Also for those who don’t know, the primary cause of this is overuse of ground water. Which is the same reason massive areas in California are sinking (though no

Also for those who don’t know, the primary cause of this is overuse of ground water. Which is the same reason massive areas in California are sinking (though not directly into the sea). Jakarta has terrible water infrastructure, and a lot of its supply comes from haphazard and unregulated use of groundwater. The discussion of relocating the capital however is limited to the actual government institutions. It’s also important to realize that there is no such city as Jakarta, the land subsidence issue is mostly limited to North Jakarta (which is actually the name of a city). So none of the discussions about ‘moving Jakarta’ are actually referring to the enormous metropolitan area around Jakarta, but specifically about the city of North Jakarta.